Kingdom Books, Mysteries - Reviews

It's the big bicentennial year for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and today marks 200 years since his birth. The Today Show will have a seg...

Tonight's poetry reading at the Vermont Studio Center, scheduled for John Haines, has been changes to David Huddle; Haines had "a m...

One of the poets I plan to read more from this year is Kathleen Aguero. Professor of English at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., ...

Like Inspector Ian Rutledge himself, the small coastal town of Hampton Regis has suffered from a force of nature: The changing coastline has...

Vermonter Chris Bohjalian's new book THE DOUBLE BIND, barely released, is climbing best-seller lists the way his MIDWIVES did, and Amazo...

"To acquire another language is to acquire another soul." Poets know this best, since they notice immediately the possibilities of...

Quick alert: Grab a copy of Carol O'Connell's new (ninth) Mallory novel, FIND ME . Framed in an ultimate multi-jurisdiction serial m...

Here's my morning photo (before today's shoveling); yes, there's a Kingdom Books banner under that snowbank. But as another poet...

Our blizzard started Tuesday night, and "going out for breakfast on Valentine's Day" vanished as a possibility within a few ho...

[This was printed in the February issue of the Vermont Review of Books -- a great publication.] When a successful mystery writer moves “off...

It was sixteen degrees below zero here this morning. But the days are noticeably longer, and the poetry season is blossoming. Coming soon to...

(Photo: After his Kingdom Books event, Archer Mayor kicks back to talk shop for a bit longer -- both police work and writing. Yes, those boo...

Working daily with Claire Van Vliet at Janus Press, Andrew Miller-Brown handles designs, papers, and inks that slowly develop into projects ...

Yes, I know, it's snowing... thank goodness, since up here we've been seriously worried that Global Warming would capsize Vermont...

No, it's not "new math" -- but it's a simple equivalence. Kenneth Koch, who died in 2002, was one of our most prolific aut...

Lyrical, image-rich, penetrating: the poetry of Carol Frost and that of John Haines share these aspects, although the poets couldn't be ...

Named Vermont State Poet two years ago (ah, that haunting line, "It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman"), Grace Paley...

Clayton Eshleman's bilingual edition of the complete poems of Cesar Vallejo, immense, comprehensive, and threaded throughout with the in...

We headed to the venerable mystery bookshop in San Mateo, M Is for Mystery, to help welcome mystery writer John Lescroart Saturday as he pre...

(Art by Jasper Johns: 0 through 9) "Post-Modern life, you can't do anything right!" mourned John Yau as he warmed up in his re...